Applications of operations research to mine planning date back to the 1960s. Since that
time, optimization and simulation, in particular, have been applied to both surface and …

There is an everlasting distance and interdependence between mines and end-users as it
involves different types of equipment, infrastructure, and facilities, including excavators …

This paper reports on the fifth version of the Mixed Integer Programming Library. The miplib
2010 is the first miplib release that has been assembled by a large group from academia …

This paper presents a metaheuristic solution approach based on Tabu search for the open-
pit mine production scheduling problem with metal uncertainty. To search the feasible …

For the purpose of production scheduling, open-pit mines are discretized into three-
dimensional arrays known as block models. Production scheduling consists of deciding …

The problem of long-term production planning of open pit mines is a large combinatorial
problem. Application of mathematical programming approaches suffer from reduced …

A hyper-heuristic refers to a search method or a learning mechanism for selecting or
generating heuristics to solve computational search problems. Operating at a level of …

Given a discretized representation of an ore body known as a block model, the open pit
mining production scheduling problem that we consider consists of defining which blocks to …

Production scheduling is a critical activity for the long-term production planning of open pit
mining operations. It deals with the effective management of resources and maximizes cash …

One of the main obstacles in using exact optimisation methods for open pit production
scheduling is the size of real mining problems, which forms an intractable optimisation …